Full-Stack Engineer

We are seeking Full Stack Engineers to join our high-performance team led by our Director of Technology Muhammad Khan. We are seeking a mid-level software engineer “team player” who enjoys delivering and growing their capabilities, who has a clear understanding of software engineering practices and agile development. Do you have experience with different technologies, are able to quickly learn and adapt to new ones and can help in technical decisions but also genuinely enjoys constructive technical debates? Our mid-level engineers have a good understanding of the SDLC, and focus on using modern software engineering practices, XP, and agile delivery of value to customers. We’re looking for someone who has experience with diverse technologies, can quickly learn and adapt to new ones, contributes to technical decisions, enjoys constructive debates, and can seek feedback to continuously improve. Our multidisciplinary and multinational team cover the full stack from Kotlin backend microservices to frontend Vue.js and Typescript.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to grow into a full stack mid-level engineer where you will leverage your existing experiences to continue to learn greater depth and to improve code quality as well as participate in the community. Like all engineers you are expected to expand your skills. As a team member you will gain a deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle to deliver value to SO Energy customers using agile processes supported by our in-house Data Analytics team. Join a high-performance engineering team: We are building a robust, performant, and scalable platform utilising a microservices architecture on Google Cloud. Our diverse tech stack features Vue.js on the frontend and Kotlin on the backend, but we also have some Ruby and Python.

As a fully empowered team member you'll play a pivotal role in building out our architecture quickly, with great attention to quality and detail, and innovating wherever opportunities are discovered – expanding our robust microservice based platform’s capabilities whilst keeping the Total Cost of Ownership low. The majority of time will be spent collaborating with your team members cutting code, or within our software guilds refining practices and learning about our technologies today and tomorrow.

What you’ll be getting up to:

• Implementing capabilities across the entire stack, both frontend (JavaScript, VueJS, HTML, CSS, Typescript) and backend (Kotlin) technologies.
• Championing quality software and practices, implementing small iterative improvements every day.
• Proactively seeking opportunities to improve “Scouts’ campsite rule” - simplifying, refactoring and optimising to make development easier for you and your colleagues.
• Collaborating within a cross-functional and cross-disciplinary team (Frontend, Backend, Product, Data, QA) and foster a knowledge-sharing environment.
• Delivering Business Value by driving shared and modern software engineering principles throughout the SDLC, including TDD, BDD.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of internal tooling and environments.
• Technologies: Willingness to become fullstack / “all rounder” / “Pi-shaped” in our tech stack as quickly as possible.
• Deep on at least one backend or frontend and proficient in the other; or deep in backend and different frontend languages (e.g. C# and JS but not Node.js and JS).
• GitHub, Gradle, GCloud, bash, Regex, PostgreSQL, Json BE: JVM language (Kotlin preferred) FE: JavaScript (frameworks React, Angular, Vue preferred)

This role will be a great fit if:

• Have deep knowledge on one or more of React, Vue, JavaScript, Java or Kotlin, and experience in frontend, backend, or mobile development.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of system design and software architecture implementation principles.
• Be adept at applying the right methodologies for each task, adhering to established workflows while actively seeking and advocating for enhancements to our processes.
• Enjoy being agile and collaboratively working with others in an XP, Scrum, Kanban, hybrid. Aiming to elevate your career by growing into a more rounded software engineer.
• Are passionate about creating quality work, and helping others to do the same, focusing on never needing to be On Call.
• Continuously improving our Monitoring and Alerting, and Self-Restoring capabilities.
• Already have energy supply experience or are willing to learn this domain quickly; Similarly, the rapidly changing renewable energy sector.
• Are comfortable communicating within diverse teams, develop and apply your interpersonal skills to facilitate ceremonies and workshops.
• Learning quickly, and applying in feedback cycles, spikes, walking skeletons, evolving our domain design.
• Are interested in developing your technological expertise including secure code, risk-based testing, and constructive peer or group-based reviews.

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